The Thing Itself (#014)
#014 – The Thing Itself The Thing Itself and the Way it is done. “Substance” is not enough: “accident” is also required, as the scholastics say. A bad manner spoils …
Act Sometimes on Second Thoughts (#013)
#013 – Act Sometimes on Second Thoughts Act sometimes on second thoughts, sometimes on first impulses. Man’s life is a warfare against the malice of men. Sagacity fights with strategic …
Nature & Art (#012)
#012 – Nature & Art Material and workmanship. There is no beauty unadorned and no excellence that would not become barbaric if it were not supported by artifice: this remedies …
Cultivate Those Who Can Teach You (#011)
#011 – Cultivate Those Who Can Teach You Let friendly intercourse be a school of knowledge, and culture be taught through conversation: thus you make your friends your teachers and …
Fortune and Fame (#010)
#010 – Fortune & Fame Where the one is fickle the other is enduring. The first for life, the second afterwards; the one against envy, the other against oblivion. Fortune …
Avoid the Faults of Your Nation (#009)
#009 – Avoid the Faults of Your Nation Water shares the good or bad qualities of the strata through which it flows, and man those of the climate in which …
To Be Without Passion (#008)
#008 – To be Without Passions ‘Tis a privilege of the highest order of mind. Their very eminence redeems them from being affected by transient and low impulses. There is …
Avoid Victories over Superiors (#007)
#007 – Avoid Victories over Superiors All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal. Superiority is always detested, a fortiori superiority over superiority. Caution can …
Man at His Highest Point (#006)
#006 – A Man at His Highest Point We are not born perfect: every day we develop in our personality and in our calling till we reach the highest point …
Make Them Depend (#005)
#005 – Make Them Depend Create a feeling of dependence. Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity. The wise man would rather see men needing him …